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Note: The events in this pilot are based on the true story
recorded by Laura
Ingalls Wilder in her Little House
series of books. The dramatic portrayals by the actors in the dynamics between
Charles and Caroline are romanticized and modernized, but the personalities of
Laura and Mary are exactly as they were in life, and the line where Mary wanted
to save her peppermint candy (brought to her from Santa Claus by Mr. Edwards) while Laura bit into hers right away
was directly from Wilder's writing.

September 11, 1979

The last Wonder Woman episode (The Phantom of the Roller Coaster: Part II) aired on CBS-TV.

September 13, 1969

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!the first in a series of Scooby-Doo cartoons premiered on CBS.
The original series, Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, was created for Hanna-Barbera Productions by writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears, CBS executive Fred Silverman, and character designerIwao Takamoto. The show centers around four kids, whom were unofficially called "Mystery Inc." whose hobby was mystery solving. The basic premise remained unchanged through the many series of the franchise: criminal activities were covered up as faux supernatural events with red herrings and clues leading up to the eventual undoing.
The meddlesome kids were Fred Jones is the stocky, straight-laced member; Daphne Blake, beautiful but danger-prone red-head; Velma Dinkley, the pudgy, bespectacled brains of the outfit; Norville "Shaggy" Rogers, the pencil-thin chow hound and the star of the show, the gangly, bow-legged Great Dane Scooby-Doo.

The show was created by Roy Huggins and Stephen J. Cannell. Huggins created the
television show Maverick (1957–1962), which starred
Garner, and he wanted to recapture that magic in a "modern day"
detective setting. He teamed with Cannell, who had written for Jack Webb productions
such as Adam-12 and Chase (1973–1974, NBC), to create The
Rockford Files.

The show was credited as "A Public Arts/Roy
Huggins Production" along with Universal
Studios and in association with Cherokee Productions. Cherokee was
owned by Garner, with partners Meta Rosenberg and Juanita
Bartlett, who doubled as story editor during most of The Rockford
Files run.

In many episodes, Pepper went undercover
(as a prostitute, nurse, teacher, flight attendant, prison inmate, dancer,
waitress, etc.) in order to get close enough to the suspects to gain valuable
information that would lead to their arrest.

Herbie
Hancock was the night's biggest winner, taking home five awards,
followed by Michael Jackson, who won three. The night's main
award, though, went to The Cars for "You
Might Think," making this the first of a very small number of times in
which the winner of Video of the
Year did not take home any other awards that night.

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